An Expat Educator in Asia

I am in a very reflective mood about the work I have been doing in Macau. Whilst I enjoy the aspect of being in the schools and working with staff there to embrace some of the new technologies for learning, I find that Macau is even worse than Hong Kong for understanding English. For this [...]

Have just read a good post by Ann Murcha about twitter and its uses in Education. This is a good, succinct, easy to read post that might be good for the newby to read. I am a bit of a skeptic at the moment but I am going to go and try to follow [...]

Having just returned from the UK where the Guardian newspaper quoted that the average spend on ICT in a UK primary went from 3,600 pound in 1998 to 14,800 in 2004 and from 40,100 to 88,600 pound for secondaries, I was amazed to see that funding for local HKSAR schools is still being debated in [...]

I have just read an article about my home state that seems a bit surprising. It is about the computer skills of kids based on testing carried out in 2005.
Both year 6 and year 10 kids were found to be below the national averages. Bit disappointing seeing that ICT has been touted as a great [...]

ASUS EeePCs

Originally uploaded by Craig Rodway

This is a pic of the ASUS Eee PC as referred to in the previous entry below.
It is just the sort of thing I was asking for 8 years ago when we started the 1:1 program in Perth. It is a great [...]

Wow! What a week it was at BETT!
For me it was a great opportunity to meet with some great supporters of my business in Hong Kong, to learn about new developments in arguably the world’s most developed nation for the use of ICT in Education, to listen to some great speakers and classroom practitioners, [...]

When I was setting up the laptop programme at my former school in Australia, there was a lot of discussion with many stakeholders about how much access we would give kids to their own laptops. I was really glad that we had a very good System Administrator at that stage who was really keen on [...]